[c-nsp] Public table on 7206 VXR with NPE-G1 - 512MB or 1GB?

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday 22 January 2009 09:49:23 am Jose wrote:

> One question I'd like to ask is whether anyone would ever
> consider using one of these as a gateway towards your
> upstream transits pushing over 500Mbps of bandwidth?

It's ability to reach that forwarding capacity would depend 
on which other "packet-touching" features you have enabled, 
e.g., ACL's, QoS, e.t.c., (and most of us love to touch 
packets entering/leaving the perimetre).

That said, we've been happy with NPE-G2's doing BGP, IS-IS, 
ACL's, uRPF, MPLS and QoS reaching 600Mbps @ 65% CPU, in 
some of our smaller edge deployments.

As P routers in smaller deployments as well, we've seen the 
NPE-G2 peak at an aggregated forwarding capacity of 950Mbps 
@ 69% CPU (IS-IS, MPLS, BGP for IPv6).

We don't intend to push our NPE-G1's this hard, but I've 
heard of capabilities to reach between 400Mbps and 550Mbps 
on this platform, depending on features, e.t.c.

Cheers,

Mark.
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